Providing Free Medical Care in Iraq

MASUD’S STORY

Embrace is helping to get vital medical care to the people of Northern Iraq through the Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil’s partnership with the Maryamana Hospital.

Embrace funds ensure tests, medication and surgery can be given to people who are unable to afford the treatment. People like 67-year-old Masud. 

Masud had been evicted from the room he was living in as he could not afford to pay the rent. He ended up living on the streets of Erbil. When Fr Shwan, of the Diocese of Erbil, met him, Masud was suffering from acute kidney failure and was in urgent need of medical treatment.  

Fr Shwan got Masud admitted to Maryaman Hospital, where he received dialysis treatment for 6 days. When he was well enough to be discharged, Fr Shwan found Masud accommodation in an retirement care home so he would not have to return to the streets.